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From: keith@csli.Stanford.EDU (Keith Nishihara)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Change to delete is in order
Message-ID: <12688@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 90 15:20:08 GMT
Sender: keith@csli.Stanford.EDU (Keith Nishihara)
Reply-To: Neil Hunt <Neil%teleos.com@ai.sri.com>
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Consistency is very important.  A language variant which sometimes nulls
the argument to delete, and sometimes not (according to whether the
argument is an lvalue), and which never zeros additional pointers to
deleted objects invites errors due to misunderstanding and misuse.

Bad idea!

Neil/.		Neil%teleos.com@ai.sri.com